This year was such shit.
I did this in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010! At some point I'll fill in the links.....
1. What did you do in 2020 that you'd never done before?
Lived through a motherfucking pandemic.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No and no.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
The year is a blur. I don't think so?
4. Did anyone close to you die?
OtterFreak. Forever missed. What a bullshit year.
5. What countries did you visit?
HAHAHAHA. I was supposed to go to Finland three times for work. Instead I....did not.
6. What would you like to have in 2021 that you lacked in 2020?
FUCKING EVERYTHING. Concerts and restaurants and hugs and everything.
7. What date from 2020 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
December 5 - the day Olli got out. December 20 - the day Olli came back.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Surviving?
I also started another new job and this one has actually worked out so well all year.
9. What was your biggest failure?
2020 was the failure, not me.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Thankfully, no.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
I think I got the air fryer this year? I don't remember.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Fauci!
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
EVERYBODY.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Groceries/food deliveries/take out.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Well at first it was the opportunity to travel.
Then it was like...oh guess what, we're going to wear masks and go get take out from Leons.
16. What song will always remind you of 2020?
2020 was the year my kid discovered top 40, ugh. So like....Dua Lipa's hits and the Weeknd and that Lonely Chick song and the song about queens on a throne and...
17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Sadder
II. Thinner or fatter?
Fatter
III. Richer or poorer?
Richer.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Living life.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Quarantining.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I'm sadly not sure this year. We still may get Chinese Dhaba and eat it over Zoom with friends or go outside? No H-mart, pretty sure.
21. What, if any, insight did you gain about yourself in 2020?
You need more than therapy and it's OK to take the meds.
22. What was your favorite TV program?
The gorbidge show of the Masked Singer got me through this year. Also Schitt's Creek (now have watched it 2x through).
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Yeah.
26. What was the best book you read?
Why Fish Don't Exist and For Small Creatures Such as We and Nobody Will Tell You This But Me and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
I read 61 books this year and the year isn't over yet.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing.
28. What did you want and get?
A new job.
29. What did you want and not get?
To travel to Finland.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
HAMILTON!
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Slutty Vegan and ice cream fishie. I am 47.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I mean...no COVID?
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2020?
Comfort.
34. What kept you sane?
I have. No. Idea.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Nah.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The election!
(Also Covid obvs)
37. Who did you miss?
15 days without Olli.
Josh.
My friends. My life,
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Jamie!
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2020.
Masks protect us all.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
2020, what the actual fuck?
